Background
Francisco, Dorman Edward was born on February 17, 1953 in Chattanooga. Son of Dorman C. and Edna Lucille Francisco.
(Death, Child and Love: Poems, 1980-2000 is the odyssey of...)
Death, Child and Love: Poems, 1980-2000 is the odyssey of a poet journeying from darkness to light. Chronicling a long and harrowing series of deaths and personal disappointments, the early poems in this volume serve as an antidote to dispair, expounding the difficulties of life and giving articulation to the many people who suffer. Yet, it is Francisco's focus on children in the later poems that provides healing, redemption, and arrival at a juncture where love is finally possible. Displaying a wide range of styles, the poems are, by turn, lyrical, narrative, and meditative.
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Viola Sykes is an unlikely heroine. Her son Harold, a shell-shocked veteran of World War II, has been murdered for threatening to expose key figures in a bootlegging and political conspiracy. Poorly educated and with few resources, Viola must match wits with the suspected culprit, Loather Parrish, a notorious political boss whose intelligence is equaled only by his capacity for evil. In her efforts at retribution, Viola struggles to prevent her daughter from becoming another pawn in Loather Parrish's political machinations. To secure their freedom, Viola pursues a daring tactic: she commits herself to an infamous mental hospital. The Dealmaker, set in 1940s and 1950s Appalachia, presents an unusual cast of characters who aid Viola as she seeks to avenge her son's death: Isabel Williams, playwright Tennessee Williams' aunt, another inmate at the asylum; Nadine, an idiot savant, who has memorized all the telephone numbers and addresses in the Knoxville, Tennessee, phone directory; and Burdette Webb, a courageous reporter who risks his life to obtain crucial evidence. In Mr. Francisco's fast-paced narrative, these characters draw the reader into an intriguing tale of murder, rampant ambition, prefontal lobotomies, and a mother's unflappable courage.
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Francisco, Dorman Edward was born on February 17, 1953 in Chattanooga. Son of Dorman C. and Edna Lucille Francisco.
Bachelor, University Tennessee, 1975. Master of Arts, University Tennessee, 1980.
Instructor English University Tennessee, Knoxville, 1980—1990. Associate professor English Pellissippi State Community College, 1991—2003, writer-in-residence, since 2003.
(Death, Child and Love: Poems, 1980-2000 is the odyssey of...)
(Viola Sykes is an unlikely heroine. Her son Harold, a she...)
Co-sponsor Catholic Campus Organization of Pellissippi State Community College, since 2002. Board directors World Citizenship Institute, Knoxville, since 2002, Institute for Christian Spirituality, Knoxville, since 2002. Member of Tennessee Mountain Writers Organization (board directors 1990-1996, since 2004).
Married Linda Kay Burton, February 5, 1983. 1 child Gabriel Edward.